Local residents of Lenin Nagar area under Sonarpur police station on Tuesday ransacked the house of Amit Roy who was arrested by the police on the charges of raping and then murdering a minor girl.
As the matter came to light, the local residents got agitated and attacked the house of the accused. They ransacked a portion of the house of the accused. Police reached the spot and brought the situation under control. A police picket has been set up as there was tension in the area on Tuesday morning. Police on Monday night conducted a raid and arrested the accused who had been absconding since the incident had taken place. The accused used to reside close to the house of the victim.
Police said that there were injury marks on the body of the accused which suggest that the victim girl tried desperately to free herself from his clutches. The victim, a 14-year-old girl and a student of Class X was found dead inside her house. The accused hit her on the head with a heavy object after committing the rape. The victim used to live in the house with her grandmother after losing her mother in childhood.
Police also said that the accused entered into the house by breaking a portion of the fence made of straw. The local people alleged that the accused youth had been giving indecent proposals to the victim for quite some time. The victim girl had turned down his proposal. Police suspect that the accused might have tried to take revenge on the victim. Police have also held six other persons in this connection so far.
Her grandmother found the girl lying in a pool of blood on her bed on Monday morning. The woman broke down in tears after seeing her state. The local residents rushed to the spot and took her to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced brought dead by the doctors. According to the preliminary investigation, police suspect that girl was raped before the murder.